Collaborative Challenge Program
Collaborative Challenge Program
Discover a growing collection of challenge topics that empower young people to explore a variety of potential passions to find what they care about most.
Project AccelerUs creates opportunities for Solvers to address challenges that matter. Solvers take on real issues that impact their communities and everyday lives. Each challenge topic:
Challenge topics are aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ensure access to existing research, networks, and subject-matter experts.
Climate change is making weather weird — stronger storms, rising sea levels, mega droughts, melting ice caps and wildfires that look straight out of a disaster movie. It’s hitting families, communities, businesses — pretty much everyone, everywhere. This challenge is a Solver’s launchpad for defining the future they want to create that actually helps their community deal with this stuff — or even stop it from getting worse.
Disasters are big, scary, expensive messes. They hurt people. Wreck communities. Blow budgets. From earthquakes and wildfires to hurricanes and human-made disasters, these events can bring daily life to a screeching halt. The real question? How can we reduce the damage, respond faster, and help people recover better? In this challenge, Solvers dig into disaster relief from all angles — before the storm hits, while it’s happening, and during the long road to recovery.
Education is the ultimate life upgrade. It’s how people level up their skills, land better jobs, invent new things, and make their communities stronger. When more people have access to quality learning, everybody wins — families, neighborhoods, even entire cities. What does the future of education look like to you? And how could you help shape it?
Food insecurity means not having consistent access to enough food to live a healthy, active life. In other words, you don’t always know where your next meal is coming from. Sound familiar? You might know someone living through this — or it might be happening in your own community. This challenge is all about digging into the causes of food insecurity, how it affects real people, and how Solvers can help create a future where everyone gets fed.
Let’s get this straight from the pros: “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being.” – World Health Organization
Translation: Everyone, everywhere, deserves to be healthy — no exceptions. This challenge is all about exploring what health and well-being mean, how to make them more accessible, and how Solvers can help shape a healthier future for their community.
Youth violence isn’t just “kids being kids” — it’s a serious public health problem that can shape (and sometimes shatter) lives for years to come. The official definition? The intentional use of physical force or power to threaten or harm others. Bottom line: every young person deserves to grow up in a home, school, and neighborhood where they feel safe enough to dream big — and actually live those dreams. The Intentional Prevention challenge is all about learning how to stop violence before it starts.
Think of “nature” as Earth’s VIP club — forests, oceans, rivers, mountains, and every adorable (or weird) creature in between, like this Colorado chipmunk (Neotamias quadrivittatus) seen in the White River National Forest in Colorado. Protecting these spaces doesn’t just make for great Instagram backdrops — it keeps our air clean, our food growing, and our wildlife thriving. In this challenge, Solvers explore what it takes to be nature’s hype squad — conserving, preserving, and speaking up for the planet when it can’t speak for itself.
Our love of stuff fuels the global economy — but it also chews through natural resources like there’s no tomorrow (literally). From disposable coffee cups to fast fashion, the way we consume and produce is often… well… wasteful. In this challenge, Solvers dig into what it really means to live sustainably — and how they can be part of the movement to turn waste into wow.
Climate change is making weather weird — stronger storms, rising sea levels, mega droughts, melting ice caps and wildfires that look straight out of a disaster movie. It’s hitting families, communities, businesses — pretty much everyone, everywhere. This challenge is a Solver’s launchpad for defining the future they want to create that actually helps their community deal with this stuff — or even stop it from getting worse.
Disasters are big, scary, expensive messes. They hurt people. Wreck communities. Blow budgets. From earthquakes and wildfires to hurricanes and human-made disasters, these events can bring daily life to a screeching halt. The real question? How can we reduce the damage, respond faster, and help people recover better? In this challenge, Solvers dig into disaster relief from all angles — before the storm hits, while it’s happening, and during the long road to recovery.
Education is the ultimate life upgrade. It’s how people level up their skills, land better jobs, invent new things, and make their communities stronger. When more people have access to quality learning, everybody wins — families, neighborhoods, even entire cities. What does the future of education look like to you? And how could you help shape it?
Food insecurity means not having consistent access to enough food to live a healthy, active life. In other words, you don’t always know where your next meal is coming from. Sound familiar? You might know someone living through this — or it might be happening in your own community. This challenge is all about digging into the causes of food insecurity, how it affects real people, and how Solvers can help create a future where everyone gets fed.
Let’s get this straight from the pros: “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being.” – World Health Organization
Translation: Everyone, everywhere, deserves to be healthy — no exceptions. This challenge is all about exploring what health and well-being mean, how to make them more accessible, and how Solvers can help shape a healthier future for their community.
Youth violence isn’t just “kids being kids” — it’s a serious public health problem that can shape (and sometimes shatter) lives for years to come. The official definition? The intentional use of physical force or power to threaten or harm others. Bottom line: every young person deserves to grow up in a home, school, and neighborhood where they feel safe enough to dream big — and actually live those dreams. The Intentional Prevention challenge is all about learning how to stop violence before it starts.
Think of “nature” as Earth’s VIP club — forests, oceans, rivers, mountains, and every adorable (or weird) creature in between, like this Colorado chipmunk (Neotamias quadrivittatus) seen in the White River National Forest in Colorado. Protecting these spaces doesn’t just make for great Instagram backdrops — it keeps our air clean, our food growing, and our wildlife thriving. In this challenge, Solvers explore what it takes to be nature’s hype squad — conserving, preserving, and speaking up for the planet when it can’t speak for itself.
Our love of stuff fuels the global economy — but it also chews through natural resources like there’s no tomorrow (literally). From disposable coffee cups to fast fashion, the way we consume and produce is often… well… wasteful. In this challenge, Solvers dig into what it really means to live sustainably — and how they can be part of the movement to turn waste into wow.
